Fantasy game pitching

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Four industry reps from 4EversGames Snowfall Housemarque and Tamalaki take forty messy screenshots and improvise marketable concepts then pit them to audience voting on originality and humor. Pitches range from a praying mantis dating dilemma later revealed as Don't Make Love to a crude multiplayer toy turned out to be Fart Simulator 2018 both of which exist on Steam and consoles. Expect rapidfire creative exercises real game reveals audience voting and a lot of improv comedy rather than design deep dives.

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1. 0:00Conference introduction
2. 2:27Game pitch rules explained
3. 3:11First pitch: Mantis murder game
4. 6:41Second pitch: Love Bug romance
5. 8:28Third pitch: Happy Ever After
6. 10:34Audience voting begins
7. 11:50Real game revealed: Don't Make Love
8. 12:14Fourth pitch: Hamster dungeon crawler
9. 13:40Fifth pitch: Jurassic battlegrounds
10. 15:11Sixth pitch: Colorblind adventure
11. 16:15Seventh pitch: Overcooked DLC
12. 17:45Real game revealed: surreal duck boxing
13. 18:50Eighth pitch: Deathmatch insanity cell
14. 20:19Ninth pitch: Fever Pitch sponsorship
15. 22:29Tenth pitch: Horrible hotel manager
16. 24:01Eleventh pitch: Oscar's diner
17. 25:47Audience voting round two
18. 26:07Real game revealed: Reginald's recipe
19. 26:49Twelfth pitch: Bathroom tile stickers
20. 28:19Thirteenth pitch: Fart Night battle royale
21. 29:44Fourteenth pitch: Nerd runner
22. 30:51Fifteenth pitch: 40 Time party game
23. 31:52Audience voting round three
24. 32:13Final reveal: Fart Simulator 2018
25. 32:59Winner announced

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